Combined muzzle flash-hider and bayonet-mount for firearms.



F. F. BURTON.

COMBINED MUZZLE FLASH HIDER AND BAYONET MOUNT FOR FIREARMS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 24.1918- 1 ,283,4=65. Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

FRANK F. BURTON, OF EAST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WINCHESTER REPEATIN G ARMS CO., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

COMBINED'MUZZLE FLASH-HIDER AND BAYONET-MOUNT FOR FIREARMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

Application filed July 24, 1918. Serial No. 246,439.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK F. BURTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Muzzle Flash-Hiders and Bayonet-Mounts for Firearms; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in Figure 1 a broken view in side elevation showing my improved combined muzzle flash-hider and bayonetunount applied to the muzzle end of a gun-barrel, and a bayonet mounted u on the hider.

Fig. 2 a view 0 the hider in rear elevation with the gun-barrel in transverse sec tion.

Fig. 3 a view in vertical longitudinal section of the flash-hider applied to a gunbarrel shown in elevation.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple, convenient and efficient combined muzzle fiash-hider and bayonet-mount for firearms, and particularly for military rifles.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a combined flash-hider and bayonet-mount, having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

As herein shown, my improved flashhider consists of a sleeve 2 internally reduced in diameter at its rear end and threaded as at 3 to adapt it to be screwed upon a stem 4 smaller in diameter than, and formed integral with, the muzzle end of the gun-barrel 5, upon which the hider may be mounted and from which it may be demounted as desired. At its rear end, the sleeve 2 is formed with an integral depending pom1nel-mounting lug 6 T-shaped in cross-section and adapted for the sliding engagement with it of the pommel 7 of an ordinary bayonet having a grip 8, a blade 9 and a guard 10, which latter is formed with a ring 11 adapted in internal diameter to fit snugly over the forward end of the sleeve 2 as shown in Fig. 1. The rear end of the sleeve 2 is also formed, as shown, with an integral upstanding sight-mounting lug 12 located directly above the pommelmounting lug 6, and having an undercut transverse groove 13 for the reception of a front gun-sight 14: of ordinary form. The lug 12 has a vertical slot 15 for the reception of a key 16 held in place by a pin 17 and entering a key-way 18 in the barrel 5 for preventing the hider from turning thereupon.

I claim A muzzle flash-hider for firearms, consisting of a sleeve adapted at its rear end to be removably applied to the muzzle end of a gun-barrel and having an upstanding sightmounting lug and a dependin pommelmounting lug with which latter t e pommel of a bayonet has sliding engagement, while the guard of the bayonet is sleeved Over the forward end of the said sleeve.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK F. BURTON. Witnesses:

THOMAS C. JoHNsoN, ERIK S. Panama.

Copies 01 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

- Washington, D. 0. 

